Woke a little late after a late one last night and my lovely wife announced that she would be heading of to her friend's place for an hour or two with my 8 yo son. I quickly loaded the car and headed down to the Georges, up river from the main bridges and launched into good overcast conditions. Armed with hardbodies and blades only, I hit a coupe of reliable run out spots around 10:30am with the hope that the last half of the run out would produce the goods. Scored 5 flatties from 40-50 cm, keeping the 2 bigger ones on a variety of lures but at about midday, the bite slowed down. I changed plans and trolled a new area that drops from 4 ft down to 10 ft. On the first troll, one of my rods took a hit that looked pretty solid. I set the hooks and brought the other lines in. This was a good flatty that came to the yak pretty quickly. I netted her in a pretty green state. She looked a good size and I and slipped the lip grips in as she had swallowed the lure completely. The flatty then launched itself out of the net and twisted a full 360 degrees before landing in the yak at my feet minus the lip grips that had split the bottom jaw! I re-gripped the top jaw, removed the lure and dispatched the fish. I had drifted back a hundred metres or so after the action so I set the lures for one more troll on the way back to the car. Around the same spot, the same lure gets hit again and this time I felt some serious weight as I set the hooks. I quickly got the other line in and started on the fish and it took a couple of zippy runs to the surface, with a silver flank flashing at me, making me think it was a jew. As I got it back to the side of the yak, I got a glimpse of a very nice flathead. By this time I was only a couple of hundred metres from the car so I towed her in slowly and netted her as I beached the yak. A quick measure on the lie detector showed her up as a very healthy 86cm. I yelled out to a nearby fisho who kindly took a couple of happy snaps and I then swam her back to a fiesty release. It was an interesting session and hopefully a sign of things to come over spring and summer!